BREAKING, sad to report this: ESPN layoffs are happening today, and the number is 150. zero on-air talent is included. full details from us at @YahooFinance: https://yhoo.it/2jx9zq1
Espn lays off 150 before Christmas; zero on-air talent affected
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What do you call 1,000 ESPN shitbirds at the bottom of the ocean?BREAKING, sad to report this: ESPN layoffs are happening today, and the number is 150. zero on-air talent is included. full details from us at @YahooFinance: https://yhoo.it/2jx9zq1
A good start.
Among other things including political commentaries when sports should be discussed. I used to watch ESPN 3 times a day. Now, only if UK is playing.
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They stretched themselves way too far in anticipation that the bubble would keep growing. They didn't forsee streaming and online features being so sudden and so massive, and so they have to keep cutting back to where they should have been all along. It's mostly folks that don't generate ratings and revenue that are being let go.
Sad to see that many folks lose their jobs, but most of them are talented and qualified to find good work elsewhere soon.
Sad to see that many folks lose their jobs, but most of them are talented and qualified to find good work elsewhere soon.
Skip back ~15 years and the landscape has changed so much.
Every major sport now has its own network. Every major NCAA conference has its own network. Fox Sports, FS1, CBS Sports, NBCSN, etc. ESPN never foresaw this level of competition. Streaming services have killed them too.
This doesn't even factor in the explosion of additional non sports options - Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, etc. Access to a full array of entertainment has never been easier.
Every major sport now has its own network. Every major NCAA conference has its own network. Fox Sports, FS1, CBS Sports, NBCSN, etc. ESPN never foresaw this level of competition. Streaming services have killed them too.
This doesn't even factor in the explosion of additional non sports options - Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, etc. Access to a full array of entertainment has never been easier.
the reason it is down is b/c it has been infiltrated by conservative hating liberals. Jason whitlock is routinely called a coon for his opinions on protesting in the NFL. That's the reason ESPN is going down. ALl this other bs about streaming etc. is such a crock haha. But keep digging for reasons other than the obvious one. I watch about one game a week at a bar and I haven't seen a camera in months pan the whole stadium. It's always the lower level. Why is that?
And now the players are demanding money for social injustices? I mean that's next level stupid. None of the problems that plague the black community will be solved by money. It takes introspection to do that and the self righteousness is so strong among the black community (egged on by elite white liberals) that they feel they are right all the time. "We feel how we feel" < that's a quote from an NFL player on this social injustice con game.
self-righteousness you say? Oh that's hilarious. You're really good at irony.
The NFL contract kills them too...they don' get the same advertising that network tv does. Amazon is probably going to pick the nfl up.
ESPN isn' good at diversifying either. They used to be...remember espn 2 used show extreme sports and other sports you don't see as much. Now they've replaced it with E60 shows that cover a one legged boy who plays soccer in syria or the Mexican kid who hits jumpshots in his back yard which is a veil for their immigration stance, etc.
The streaming and cord cutting is a factor, but it' dumb to pretend that much of their programming isn't putrid.
ESPN isn' good at diversifying either. They used to be...remember espn 2 used show extreme sports and other sports you don't see as much. Now they've replaced it with E60 shows that cover a one legged boy who plays soccer in syria or the Mexican kid who hits jumpshots in his back yard which is a veil for their immigration stance, etc.
The streaming and cord cutting is a factor, but it' dumb to pretend that much of their programming isn't putrid.
His parents never taught him respect for his elders. He is a spoiled brat who has never had to do anything for his meals. Hopefully he will learn one day.
Hate it for the regular Joe's and Jane's behind the scenes. Too bad for them management was made up of circus clowns with a transparent agenda.
Well Said
But there's a second component to their current troubles and it definitely resides in the political realm
ALSO - the 10-12 "little things" that I believe have added up to water down the game and frustrate many fans
(overly lengthy referee roles, commercial break parades, kid gloves on (most) QB's, leading with the head ok here - not ok there - takes too long to watch a game etc)
Good point about the economic 'bubble' angles though
I read on here 2 days ago about the # of channels they were up to --- I was surprised that it was something like 7 or 8....?
There just isn't enough content to fill 24/7 broadcasting on that many different networks. We saw what happened to the news when it went from a nightly recap to a 24-hour, wall-to-wall coverage of everything broadcast.
You have to fill it with opinions and arguments and things that differ from the entire reason people were watching in the first place.
We used to watch for the sports. Now ESPN gives us people's opinion and analysis on the sports, and other people who have different opinions and analysis of the same game, and of course, to drive ratings, they yell over one another. They're a kid with one page of ideas trying to write a 20-page paper.
It also doesn't help that they don't even show some of the sports they discuss. Who wants to tune in to ESPN to see pre and post game NFL or NBA coverage and then flip to CBS, NBC, Fox, TNT, etc to watch the actual games?
It's a gigantic mess, and they're trying to dial it back gradually. It takes a lot of behind the scenes folks to generate a 24/7 network, and when no one is watching because it's just replays of First Take, that money eventually runs out.
